[postgis-devel] Installation documentation

[Brian M Hamlin]

in the GDAL build, some tests are meant to fail, and that is SUCCESS

no idea about the PostGIS ones   --hth

On 8/25/21 9:19 AM, Bruce Rindahl wrote:
> LOL - The documentation even has a failed test:
>   Test: test_lwgeom_segmentize2d ...NOTICE: ptarray.c:448 - 
> ptarray_segmentize2d: Too many segments required (1.000000e+101)
> NOTICE: liblwgeom code interrupted
> NOTICE: liblwgeom code interrupted
> NOTICE: liblwgeom code interrupted
> NOTICE: liblwgeom code interrupted
> passed
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 8:48 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us 
> <mailto:lr at pcorp.us>> wrote:
>
>     I don’t know what I was thinking when I put those in. Early on
>     there were much fewer tests and then each release added more and
>     more and raster and sfcgal addition made this exercise completely
>     pointless but out of habit I kept on doing it.
>
>     I’d chuck them.  Maybe keep the configure output.
>
>     *From:*postgis-devel [mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org
>     <mailto:postgis-devel-bounces at lists.osgeo.org>] *On Behalf Of
>     *Bruce Rindahl
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 25, 2021 11:21 AM
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>     *Subject:* [postgis-devel] Installation documentation
>
>     The file doc\installation.xml has about 700 lines of output from
>     make check. Do we need all that?  In addition, the verbiage is a
>     few years old (PostgresQL-12dev) and depending on the build
>     environment  you will get different messages even with a clean build.
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